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Math-Physics Joint Seminar

Tuesday, April 14, 2015 - 4:30pm

Victor Przyjalkowski

Steklov Mathematical Institute, RAS

Location

University of Pennsylvania

DRL 4C4

A version of Mirror Symmetry matches a Laurent polynomial to a Fano variety. Correctly chosen, such a polynomial contains a lot of information about invariants of the initial Fano variety. In particular, this enables one to construct Landau--Ginzburg models in some cases and predict the invariants of Fanos. We briefly discuss the notion of toric Landau--Ginzburg model and ways to extract some invariants of Fano varieties from them, such as rationality, Hodge numbers, toric degenerations data, and Gamma classes.